Gothenburg and Copenhagen in Late May

[johnw]

Shelagh, chatting with Jean Wyllie today, we reckoned that your Schizocoden intercedens ( as image 052 )in Post 16 on page two of this thread is in fact a Shortia soldanelloides..... Schizocodon intercedens  being white.

Maggi: Actually Shortia soldanelloides as opposed to S. soldanelloides v. intercedens to be a nit-picker. Peter Barnes says "10a Leaves 3.5 to 7 cm, ovate, with 5 to 10 prominent triangular acute, teeth on each margin; flowers usually white---7e. S. soldanelloides var. intercedens". Usually white but when not, what? Pink, why not say so? Probably all throughly mixed up in cultivation anyway.

johnw

[fermi de Sousa]

the Tulip picture includes the invasive weed that the staff were weeding out

And they'll be doing it forever as it looks like Equisetum, the dreaded Horse-tail!
Thanks for a great look at these gardens.

Lesley, we'll have plenty of G&T for your visit so you can spend your DF on the SW!
cheers
fermi

[shelagh]

Yes Fermi it certainly is Equisetum and although I love ferns I could never get attched to these pests.

Anyway if you are all game, and thanks for all the nice comments, here we go with some more Copenhagen Botanic. Including a nice little shrub I didn't know Atraphaxis causcasica, and a magnificent Astragalus massiliensis that was fully 2 and a half feet across.

232 Stachys lavendulifolia
 234 Atrophaxis causasica
 233 Atraphaxis causasica
 236 Eriogonum umbellatum
 237 Eriophyllum lanatum
 238 Astragalus massiliensis
 239 Aster alpinus albus
 240 Iris x germanica
 241View Clare and alpine beds
 242 Armeria alliaceae

[shelagh]

I really need help with Query 246. This was just growing out of the side of a rock step, whether its a chance seedling or a weed I don't know. I was just so taken with it I dirtied my trousers to photograph it. Perhaps I'd better rephrase that knowing you forumists. I sat down regardless in my pale summer trousers, trouble is I still don't know what it is. Penstemon and Salvia come to mind but neither seem to quite fit the bill.

244 Globularia meridionalis
 246 Unknown
 247 Stachys chrysantha
 249 Alpine bed
 250 Alpine bed
 254 Melittis melissophyllum ssp albidum
 255 Incarvillea mairei ssp mairei
 256 Incarvillea delavayi
 258 Alpine bed
 260 Scorzonera purpurea ssp rosea

[arisaema]

Could 246 be a Scutellaria of some sort? Thanks for posting these great pics!

[Maggi Young]

Mmm..... 246... Scutellaria or Salvia? Looks familiar, whatever..... someone will know!
PS... just as well you made that clarification of your trouser situation, Shelagh, especially at our age

[arisaema]

Found it: S. altissima.

Scutellaria altissima .....Chiltern and Plant World both have seeds

[Martinr]

Thank you Shelagh, after a tough week the trouser thing has made my day

[shelagh]

Thanks for the identification Arisaema, that has certainly made my day.

I couldn't resist the Anchusa it looked like a mound of worms, stems going all ways. The last picture in this section is a view of the herbaceous bed in the park that leads to the Rosenborg Palace fully 30 yards long. Can't remember seeing one like this in any of our public parks for many a year.

261 Genista lydia
 262 Dryas octapetala
 269 Hylomecon japonica
 272 Peony
 274 Phlomis oreophylla
 275 Lychnis viscosa
 277 Anchusa ungulata
 278 Cynoglossum nervosa
 312 Jamesia americana
 327 Border Rosenborg

[shelagh]

Final post on this subject from me. We saw some wonderful trees in flower and within camera reach which makes a change so I thought I'd include them.  They also put on a parade for us, wasn't that sweet.

On our final evening we went to the Tivoli Gardens, having a Danish grandmother I just had to go. Foolishly I decided I couldn't manage a handbag and a camera which was a pity because the planting and the gardens were superb. JohhnyD didn't take his handbag so perhaps he'll post some pics.

All in all a grand trip.

Military band Copenhagen
 280 Wisteria
 193 Horse chestnut Copenhagen botanic
 194 Sweet Chestnut
 195 Query? elm Copenhagen
 298 Pawlonia Copenhagen
 299 Fraxinus ornus
 300 Fraxinus ornus 
 339 Sculpture Copenhagen

[JohnnyD]

Quite right Shelagh, I didn't feel my handbag went with my outfit!

Tivoli Gardens are quite a surprise, with great plantings of lupins and huge bowls of exotic stuff among other things.
The gardens laid out inside the overall scheme were super.

Add to that the entertainment and a super meal in the Herzegovina restaurant - complete with live music and a roast hog - and the whole evening was a great success.

As Shelagh said, it was a great trip.

Scilla peruviana
Cornus canadensis
Those great lupins.
Garden
Another garden
& another garden.
Taking an overview of the gardens.
Great entertainment x 2.
Clare takes a break.

[JohnnyD]

Oops! Lost a few pics there.
Must try harder!

[Kenneth K]

Nice in the botanic garden of Gothenburg isn't it? It is a privilege to have it so near.

About the picture of Allium oreophilum 'Agalik'. It is grown in a raised bed under glass roof. If you look carefully on that picture you see in the lower right corner a plant of Bukiniczia kabulica. A couple of plants of that has overwintered outside and are flowering this year.